Inscribed
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-74 Jose O. Calderon-Olmedo
Sergeant First Class U.S. Army
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Also kept at
salute.nw ↗ Sergeant First Class · Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Army PentagonIn memory of
Jose Calderon-Olmedo
1957 – 2001 Today would have been the birthday. A white rose is at the name.
- Born in
- Fajardo, Puerto Rico
- Killed that day
- September 11, 2001, aged 44
- Lived in
- Annandale, Virginia
- Worked
- U.S. Army
- Held on
- September 11, 2001 · The Pentagon
Sergeant First Class, United States Army. Born at Fajardo in Puerto Rico and raised at Rio Piedras, he finished at Gabriel A. Mistral High School in 1978 and took a degree in accounting at the InterAmerican University in San Juan.
He enlisted on the eighth of July 1982 at Fort Buchanan, did basic training at Fort Leonard Wood and his advanced training at Fort Jackson. Over nineteen years he went from supply clerk to senior logistics noncommissioned officer, serving at Fort Stewart, twice in Germany, at Fort Eustis, in Korea, at Fort Campbell, and at last at the Pentagon.
He met and married Gloria Garcia during his second tour in Germany, and was deployed to the Gulf for Desert Storm shortly afterwards.
He was forty-four.
Survived by
His wife Gloria, his children Vanessa and Jose junior, his parents Saturnino Calderon and Petra Olmedo, his sister Elizabeth and his nephew Joshua.
Photographs
Buried together
Buried together at Arlington, Section 64 · 48 lost together
What people have said 1
You are not just a name on a list to me. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
S. Vincent Anthony 11 September 2026